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China's Quest for Foreign Technology
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China's Quest for Foreign Technology

by William C. Hannas, Didi Kirsten Tatlow
September 2020
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
12h 29m
English
Routledge
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THE MYTH OF THE STATELESS GLOBAL SOCIETY

Anna B. Puglisi

For many years, the US and Western nations’ engagement with China has been predicated on certain core beliefs regarding globalization, market economics, transnational labor pools, Internet and scientific freedoms, and what it takes to be innovative.1 As a result, discussions of China as a strategic competitor have often been shaped by an implicit bias for certain key assumptions underlying Western political theory: that you need democracy to be innovative and creative, that you need a market economy to be successful, and that we, especially the US, will always be able to out-innovate others.

In practice, these biases often take the form of the following memes:

• we are not a US business ...

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ISBN: 9781000191615